Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims
-
Upload
qbit-mesra -
Category
Technology
-
view
5.079 -
download
2
Transcript of Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims
![Page 1: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Prelims-Answers
![Page 2: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
1
• This Country was named after the Latin name for a metal because the first conquerors arrived in this area following rumors of mountains made of this metal.
• Name the country.
![Page 3: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Argentina
![Page 4: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
2.
• Which was first video game to use a “scratch and sniff” cd?
![Page 5: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Gran Turismo 2
![Page 6: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
3. Who designed this LOGO
![Page 7: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Ronald Wayne
![Page 8: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
4. Identify X and Y.
. X is an extremely lightweight, but feature-rich software. X has a Greek letter in its name which denotes the SI prefix "micro-", as a reference to the program's very small memory footprint. X is owned by Y, which is a company founded in 2004 by Ashwin Navin and Bram Cohen. Y is also the name of the protocol that supports software such as X.
![Page 9: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
X = uTorrent
Y = BitTorrent
![Page 10: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
5*
• When the Internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, an ambitious group of scientists at CERN started working on the World Wide Web. In an office on the fourth floor they placed the World Wide Web's central database. Some faulty requests were answered with a standard message: “___________”
![Page 11: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Room 404: file not found
![Page 12: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
6
• It is a free online chat website that allows users to communicate with strangers without registering. The service randomly pairs users in one-on-one chat sessions where they chat anonymously using the handles "You" and "Stranger". The site was created by 18-year-old Leif K-Brooks, and was launched in 2008. What?
![Page 13: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Omegle
![Page 14: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
7.
• The domain name for an Indian website, is .in, so which region has the domain name .aq.
![Page 15: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Antarctica
![Page 16: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
8.
• Originally developed for the Apple II computer, this video game franchisee was
created by Jordan Mechner.• It went on to become a movie which was
released in 2010.• Which one?
![Page 17: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Prince of Persia
![Page 18: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
9. Doodle for what?
![Page 19: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Ramanujan’s 125th birth anniversary
![Page 20: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
10*
• Harvey Ball, co-owner of an advertising and public relations firm designed the _______in 1964 to help ease the acrimonious aftermath following the merger of two insurance companies: State Mutual Life Assurance Company. State Mutual planned up a “friendship campaign” to get employees to smile whenever they answered the phone, paid a claim, or typed a report. What is it that he designed?
![Page 21: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Smiley
![Page 22: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
11. FITB
• ______________ is celebrated on October 23rd. It officially starts at 6:02 A.M. and ends at 6:02 P.M on that day.
![Page 23: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Mole day 6.02 * 10 ^23
![Page 24: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
12. Logo for
![Page 25: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Ig Nobel awards
![Page 26: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
13.Inspiration for which common day to day thing.
![Page 27: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Arctium for Velcro
![Page 28: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
14. ID him
![Page 29: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
James Gosling
• Creator of Java
![Page 30: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
15*
• Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. What standard did this lead to?
![Page 31: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
• Hillebrand's magic number set the standard for one of today's most popular forms of digital communication: text messaging. 160 Characters
![Page 32: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
16.What has been Blanked out
![Page 33: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Macintosh
![Page 34: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
17. This happens to be the only illustration in which famous book?
![Page 35: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Origin of Species
![Page 36: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
18. Connect
![Page 37: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Calculus
![Page 38: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
19.Name the product• The shape of this product is modelled
after a hyperbolic paraboloid.• This design characteristic is beneficial
as it helps keep the product from breaking during distribution by eliminating lines of stress along which a small crack may easily propagate. Further, it keeps a stack of the product tightly interlocked or nested during distribution.
• The name of the product came from a street in Cincinnati. The name was chosen simply for its sound and appeal.
![Page 39: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Pringles
![Page 40: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
20*Id X
• X is the first person to reach Challenger Deep alone. He is also a member of the NASA advisory council. Reportedly he had offered BP help to plug the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but it declined. The oil spill was eventually stopped using techniques similar to those he recommended.
![Page 41: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
James Cameron
![Page 42: Pantheon '13 Science and Tech Quiz Prelims](https://reader036.fdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062522/5870f5d21a28ab5f528b49c7/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Please wait for the results